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Got an email from Ed who wrote to tell me he enjoy My Newsletters and wanted my thoughts on something.
He described an event that happened in Miami years back when he was thrown out of a ‘disco’ (jeez Ed, this must have been in the 70′s. Were you guys wearing leisure suits?). Seems the fight that got them kicked out of the disco was over a girl (big surprise there, huh?).
He ended up out on the street with his 3 buddies and about 15 guys wanting to separate their heads from their shoulders. Doing the only prudent thing, the 4 decided to run for the hills; 2 went left and Ed and his buddy went right.
Unfortunately about ten of the other guys decided to run after Ed and his buddy. Not knowing the neighborhood they ended up running around a corner and down an alley smack into a high chain link fence with barbed wire at the top — DEAD END.
They had a choice: wait for the 10 to come around the corner and see what would happen -OR- take action. Ed decided to take action. He spotted a 4′ pipe in a trash heap along with a 2×4. He grabs the pipe and tosses the 2×4 to his buddy (good choice Ed, I’d have opted for the pipe also).
His buddy is dumbfounded and asks incredulously, “What are we going to do?” Ed says, “We’re getting out of here” and runs towards the corner where they had made the bad choice of streets. The first guy chasing them is just turning that corner to “get them”.
Ed catches him cleanly on the elbow with his pipe as the guy tries to put on the brakes. Suddenly — to everyone’s surprise — the tables are turned! 2 guys are chasing 10 down the mean streets of Miami, and Ed survives what could have been a very different outcome.
Ed asked if I’d agreed this was using “Cause State”.
I have to agree: the decision to act and the effect caused were the keys to their survival.
Notice the focus wasn’t to DEFEND themselves, it was to HURT the other guys — pure and simple. I’ve covered this before. Anything less and this becomes a disaster.
Great job Ed!
Until next time,
Tim Larkin
Creator of Target Focus(TM) Training
http://targetfocustraining.com
PS. My ‘Nuclear’ Weapons video series clearly defines all Target Focus Training system principles. Read more
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